On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:00:24PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > I don't think a distro should need to know the DTB filename at all. > Rather, the/a bootloader should know which platform it's running on, and > provide a variable/... to the boot script/... that defines the DTB > filename. That would completely remove all the knowledge of DTB > filenames from distros.
At some point the distro has to install a dtb into some cannonical place so the bootloader can find it.. Are you thinking that distros will have to ship a /boot/dtbs/*.dtb with every dtb from the kernel build? What happens when you install two different versions of the kernel? What about boot schemes that can load a kernel version dependent dtb? I've said this before - I really think the kernel community will do itself a big favor if it encourages boot schemes that can handle a kernel version dependent dtb, rather that design schemes that absolutely can't allow for that. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
